The Straits Times, 2 November 1948

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1948. it PRICE TEN CENTS
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    CHIANG ADMITS THE FALL OF MUKDEN
    363 1 "Manchuria Lost To International Reds NANKING, Monday. APFICIAL sources have admitted the complete Communist occupation of Mukden, the metropolis of Manchuria. Communists entered the city yesterday and today Government rearguard troops surrendered. President Chiang Kai-shek today announced to the Central Political Council the Kuotniritang's
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    Warships In Tsingtao:US Won't Talk
    159 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. 'I'HE United States Navy A Department said last night they were unable officially to confirm the val of U.S. warships, at Tsingtao. North China, which is m the line of the present Communist advance. The Department said that two carriers, the Tarawa and
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    U.S. RUSHING SUPPLIES"
    67 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. AMERICAN military supplies will be rushed to China within the next two weeks, according to reliable informants here today. The sources said cargoes are being handled by the Army Ordnance Department, presumably indicating that guns, ammunition, and military vehicles, were Involved. Supplies were originally intended
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    CHIANG'S CRISIS
    145 1 NANKING. Mon. >JATIONALIST military *etI backs m Manchuria have now brought President Chiang Kai-shek's Government nearer to the brink of collapse than at any time during >tl past 20 years' evlstence. Qualified 9pinion here I agreed that drastic change* i will occur within the next six month fi
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    Korea Troops Smash Big Communist Gang
    139 1 Korea Troops Smash Big Com munist Gang SEOUL, Monday. "PHIRTY Communists were killed and 100 captured 1 when Korean troops. last night surrounded one of the main guerrilla bands on Cheju Island, southwest of Korea's mainland. The Korean Prime Minister (Lee Bum Suk) announced this today. Lee. who Ls also
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    40 1 Major-General S. B. Rawlins. Director General of Royal Artillery at the War Office (right) was greeted by Brigadier P. H. C. Rogers when he arrived at Tengah yesterday. Gen. Rawlins is touring gunner units m Far Eastern Command.— P.R. picture.
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    'FREEBERG ALIVE'
    30 1 MANILA, Mon— Two Ame- ricans who returned from Jogjakarta today said that 'Bobby' Freeberg the Indonesian Republic's missing oneman air force. Is held by the Dutch authorities.— A.P.
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    DR. BEEL FLIES TO BATAVIA
    140 1 i AMSTERDAM, Mon. r |\R. Louis Beel, former Dutch Prime Minister recently I appointed Dutch Government I Representative in Batavla, left by air last night for In- donesla. Dr. Beel who has been authorised to prepare plans i for the interim government of Indonesia, will
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    Officer Swam To Rescue
    98 1 A BRITISH naval officer from the destroyer Cossack was largely responsible I for the rescue of 1.300 p«rsons aboard the wrecked Cltfr.ese troopship Ying Lung, which went ashore at Masu Bay. near Keelone. Formosa This was officially revealed m Singapore last night. The officer swam out
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    Muso Reported Killed In Skirmish
    214 1 BATAVIA, Monday. VI I SO. the man who proclaimed himself President ITI of a Communist Republic m Central Java six weeks ago, was today reported to have been killed m a skirmish with Government forces. Antara, the Indonesian Republican news agency, said he met his
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    "RUTHLESS" INQUIRY
    40 1 LONDON. Mon.— Sir Hartley Shawcross, the AttorneyGeneral, promised "every assistance m quite relentlessly and quite ruthlessly Investigating" allegations of bribery and corruption against ministers and civil servants when the special tribunal inquiry held its first sitting today.— Reuter.
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    Shenton Thomas Blames Creech Jones
    432 1 LONDON, Monday. OIK Shenton Thomas, former Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States, said m a letter to The Times today that the cause of the trouble m Malaya "from first to last" was that the Colonial
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    UNITED STATES VOTES TODAY
    258 1 UNITED STA TES VOTES TOD AY WASHINGTON, Monday. TUMULT and shouting of the U.S. presidential campaign has died away except for lastminute appeals to some 50,000,000 electors to vote tomorrow. The big uncertainty is whether Governor Dewey can carry the Republican Senate with him. Republicans seem sure of him keeping
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    Train Wreckers Fail
    514 1 Train W reckers Fail From Our Staff Correspondent i KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. a malay. cycling Into Kluang this morning. I gave the first news of the second terrorist attempt m two nights to blow up the night mail train from Kuala Lumpur to SingaThe trains revoroera.ions on the rail may
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    WEST NO LONGER DOMINANT
    183 2 WEST NO LONGER DOMINANT PARIS. Mon. DANDIT Nehru said In p arls 1 today that. Europe was a most important and vital part of the world, but It was not. the entire world and this fact was usually forgotten. "It was forgotten in the past 200 years." h« said, 'because
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    BRITISH CASH FOR EUROPEAN AID
    91 2 BRISTOL Mon— Sir Stafford Cripps said yesterday I I that Britain would contribute j U.S. $500,000,000 during this fiscal year to aid European recovery. •We believe." ;ne Chancel- j I lor of the Exchequer told his I own constituent, "that if we j can co-operate
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    GOLD MEANS PRISON
    60 2 SHANGHAI, Mon.—Beginning today. holders of gold bullion and U.S. dollars will be subject to severe punishment apart from having iheir holdings confiscated IX discovered. The local financial control authorities announced this las. night at the closing of the conversion period. Military and police personnel have been instructed
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    CARGO THROWN OVERBOARD
    51 2 LONDON. Mon.— The crew of the Panama steamer Pan and gangs of men from Dover, yesterday threw overboard a cargo of manganese ore m an effort to lighten the ship. Pan ran aground m a fog. An attempt by a Dover ting to pull her off failed.—
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      Quarrel Your Way To Happy Home
      148 2 NEW YORK, Monday. CO you and your wife exchanged bitter words last night? Good for both of you. And the children listened while the fight raged? Good for them, too. Dr. David R. Mace, an American marriage counsellor and psychiatrist, writes m the Women's
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      Nominee
      35 2 M LEON PIGNON. Assistant Director of Political Affairs In the French Overseas Foreign Ministry, seen m his Paris office after being nominated to succeed M. Emit Bollarrt as High Commissioner for IndoChlna. AT. picture.
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      WESTERN WAYS DAZE ORIENTAL
      73 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. HONG Leonr has reason to reflect upon the ways of the inscrutable West. Four rurunen robbed mm of U.S. $500. He was beaten and tortured. Then he was arrested and freed only on bail of U. ***** on a charge of keeping a
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      Self-Rule Rally
      22 2 NICOSIA. Mon.— A Com-munist-organised rally urging self-government, for Cyprus was attended by 20,000 people m th? main sauare of A.P
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      Royal Review
      33 2 LONDON. Mon. Eight thousand men and women ol Britain's Dart-time forces, nsarly all of them wearing several medals, marched past the King at the Territorial Army review m Hyde Park Reuter
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      Pakistan Pact
      33 2 WASHINGTON. Mon. Argentina and Pakistan are establishing formal Haloraatlc relations. The Pakistan Ambassador (Mr. M. A. H. Ispahani > has left. VS. for Buenos Aires to take part m the ceremonies A.P
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      Red Mourning
      50 2 LONDON Mon. Hritish Communists laid a runeral wreath at the foot of the statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday. On a black-bordered card was the inscription: "In memory of United State* democracy, on trial Nov. 1 1948" The gesture was a orotast against prosecution of 13 Communists. A.P.
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      Barefaced Demand
      51 2 LONDON Man. Nudism. like every ihlriK else will coit more. The British Sun Bathing Association has decided to Increase Its membershlD fee. The president (Mr. George Mills) said the annual conference gave ample evidence of the growth of the movement towards social group nakedness. Everyone was fully dressed
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      English v Indian
      56 2 NEW DELHI. Mon. Dr. A S. Erulkar, president of the Medical Council of India, Is opposed to proposals to teach medicine in an Indian language, rather than English '■This suggestion is premature and If adopted in th» near future will set back th» progress of modern medicin*
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      Wrong Note
      38 2 LONDON. Mon. ViceAdmiral Sir John Edftell ended his after-dinner speech abruptly before the Royal Naval Old Comrades' Association last night. "I brought a shopping list my wife gave me instead of mv notes." he explained U.P
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    SINGAPORE ANTITUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION
    62 2 The Annual General Meeting of the S.A.T.A. will be held at the Addphi Hotel Roof Garden on Thursday, 2»th November. 1948 at 9. 50 p.m. AGENDA 1. To consider the Report and Accounts for the year 1947/ 48. 2. To el«ct a new Council for the forthcoming
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    SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY
    35 2 Tenders ar* invited for the "SUPPLY OF TEN CHEMICAL DRY FEED MACHINES" for the Water Department Tenders close at 4 p.m on Wednesday. 32nd December 1948. Tender Form from Municipal Secretariat (Room 238 >
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    SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL SECRETARIAT
    33 2 Three APPRENTICE CLERKS required. Must posaeu a Benlet Cambridge or Standard Bight Certificate and have knowledge of Typewriting. Apply to Muni clpal Secretary on form provided, by 12 November IMS.
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    U.S. IDEAL WORLD UNITY
    153 2 U.S. IDEAL WORLD UNITY NEW YORK. Mon AMERICAN University stu- dents are turning from Isolationism towards the "one world" spirit of the late Mr. Wendell Will Me. Beth Ramkrishna Dalmla. India's leading newspaper publisher and industrialist, said this on his return to New York after visiting the South and Middle
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    BIG ACTION AFOOT AGAINST HUKS
    59 2 BIG ACTION AFOOT AGAINST HUKS MANILA. Mon.— The Philip pines constabulary is poised to launch big-scale operations agains: an estimated 3.000 Hukbalahaps m the hilly areas ol Rizul Province, east of Manila. The Rizal Huks are believed to have grown m number considerably. Sever constabulary companies m Bulacan have engaged
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    UNLUCKY FIRST THIRTEEN
    34 2 AUCKLAND, Mon. First fatalities Involving civilian air passengers m New Zea- I land occurred when a Na- tional Airways Lockheed Electra crashed into 9,000 ft. Mt. Ruapehu. Thirteen people perished.— A.P.
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    RUSSIANSMURDER U.S. LEGATION MAN
    183 3 VIENNA, Monday. IJNITED States and Austrian police reported yesterday that four Russian soldiers "most brutally murdered" Mr. Irving Ross, an American Legation official and employee of the Economic Co-operation Authority mission to Vienna. Official reports said Mr. Ross was sitting m a car with a girl
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    Poison Fog Kills 20 In U.S. Town
    95 3 Poison Fog Kills 20 In U.S. Town NEW YORK. Mon. A deadly fume-laden fog caused 20 deaths In the Pennsylvania industrial town of Don or a. Health officials said that the fog, mixed with acid fumes, brought fatal distress to n.sthma and heart sufferers. All were more than 50 yr
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    HEART STOPPED, BUT HE LIVED
    76 3 ROME, Mon. -Two-year-old Pasquale Giannacaro was operated on yesterday for an abscess that was choking him \> death. Half way through the opera. ion. Pasquale's h art stopped and his body w nt limp. The surgeon thought Pasquale was dead but went on with the
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    THE MAN WHO SHOOK THE BBC"
    110 3 LONDON, Mon.— The Sun- day Express yesterday dubb- j sd" American comedian Dan- 1 ny Kaye "The Man Who Shook The BBC." 1 This followed an un- scheduled Saturday night 1 performance when Kaye visit- i I ed the BBC and prowled around m
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    THEY CHOSE FREEDOM
    46 3 TWO Russian Air Force officers (right) who landed m Soviet twin-engined bomber at a U.S. air base m Austria seen talking to American officers. The Russians said they fled from the Ukraine and hoped to go to the U.S. to work. A.P. picture.
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    Jews Drive Arabs From N. Palestine
    271 3 TEL AVIV, Monday. ISRAELI troops drove Arab forces out of northern Palestine yesterday and were reported by United Nations truce observers to have continued theii advance across the border into the Lebanon. An Israeli commounique said that all Arab resistance had been cleared from
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    RULES FOR AMAZONS
    63 3 TEL AVIV. Mon. CHOULD women m the Israeli forces have manicured nails? What should be the length of their hair? These are some of the problems facing a committee now drafting disciplinary regulations for the new State's forces. Already, the committee has decided that men should not
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    ARMY IN CONTROL OF PERU
    96 3 LIMA. PERU, Mon. ANEW all-military Cabinet was sworn m yesterday jby General Manuel Odria, I 1 leader of last week's bloodless i revolt m Peru which ended m the overthrow of President j Bustamente's Government two i days ago. Excepi for a few experienced politicians,
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    FLEE SCRAPPED
    21 3 HIROSHIMA, Mon. Thirty-five Japanese vrarshiiM and 120 two-man submarines have been scraooed and the metal diverted to industry.— iAL
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    19 3 FOiVARDIA*' the m>te of this sailor ha m apple green fur felt with black feathers and velvet trimmings. Reuter.
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    French Army At More Pits
    110 3 PARIS. Mon. AS troon took over more mines from strikers and unlodt-d sea-borne coal, the i French Government cont.nug ed the suspension of public g officials who had fostered the d strike. Three union ollicials 'rave 2 been suspended from »he 2 National Coal Board.
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    ISLAND REVOLT
    40 3 fi PARIS. Mon. Twenty-six g have been sentenced fo prison 3 terms varying f rom 18 months Ij to 10 years at Antananarivo for plotting m connecion 8 with last year's nationalist M revolt m Madagascar. j' itpr
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    SLA V-COMINFORM SPLIT WIDENS
    179 3 SLA V-COMINFORM SPLIT WIDENS BELGRADE, Mon. YUGOSLAVIA appears to be ready to drop her pretence of good relations with the Cominform countries. Diplomatic circles m Belgrade think that the first step will be the breakin* off of diplomatic relations with Hungary which on Saturday gave the Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires and
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    REDS COST BURMA £2,500,000
    70 3 REDS COST BURMA £2,500,000 RANGOON, Mon. BURMA'S rice and timber industries have lost near1 ly £2,500 000 because of the three months' old Insurrection. The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League has blamed communists for the "present chaotic condition" and added i that £450,000 has been spent on military measures. Looting of
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    U.S. DENIAL IN RUSSIAN PAPERS
    60 3 MOSCOW, Mon— The Soviet press yesterday published the United States State Department's denial of Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin's charges that the U.S. was building up the Japanese naval base at Yokosuka for use as an American naval base. Pravda published substantially the American text 1 under
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    Gorkhas Now Official
    58 3 UEHRA DUN, Mon. THE Gurkha has become a Gorkha. A Gorkha conference at Dehra Dun decided the name should be spelled and pronounced that war. Delegates said the term Gorkhas did not refer to any particular tribe or race but was the name given to followers of
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    THE PARSIS OF INDIA ARE DIMINISHING
    151 3 NEW YORK. MOO. I JNDIA'S Parsi population may be halved within a century unless a steady decline m that community's birth j rate is halted, says Dr. C. J Chandra Sekar of the Calcuti t3 In^titut > of J ublic Ilenlth. In an article
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    MORE ACRES OF PADI
    404 4 Govt Encourages Smallholders From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. §IN T CE the liberation, nearly 200,000 acres of padi land have been brought into production on small holdings. Giving this information today, the acting Chief Field Officer of the Federation (Mr. J. R. Soper) said
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    38 4 CAPT. J. D. JIBBEN, (centre) master of the Rotterdam Lloyd vessel Slimat. which arrived In Singapore yesterday on her maiden voyage. With htm Is chief officer O Botje (left) and Chief Engineer J. Jens (right). Straits Times picture.
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    CHILDREN HAVE NO SCHOOLS
    144 4 From Our Own Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI. Aion. I ACCORDING to the Labour Enactment, every estate m which there are more than ten children should provide suitable education for them. I but so far very few estates have complied. The Saberkas representative iTuau Haji Ahmad Abdullah) told
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    DEEPAVALI SHOWS
    35 4 Extra shows were f>ut on m Tamil theatres yesterday for the De»payali crowds Large crowds packed Blneapore cinemas. Amusement parks were not sj welJ-natronised. as m the previous day. because ot the rain.
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    New Oxford Car On Way
    86 4 IS Lord Nuffield announced n m London the introduction of his new models, distributors m more than 75 countries began to unpack shipmen.s of the Morris Oxford. The vessel In which the first of these was shipped to Singapore has been delayed, bu; Malayan Motors,
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    Import Licences Still Necessary, Says Govt.
    228 4 I ICENCES for imports into Singapore from Britain are still necessary for those commodities under International Emergency Food Council control and those which the British Government is endeavouring to export to America. l The acting Registrar of Imports and Exports (Mr. A. D. Stutchbury)
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    27 4 ISLAND BEAUTY from the Shetlands is 16-year-old Ruby Watt who is helping to reap the "herring harvest" at Great Yarmouth on the English East (oast— Renter picture.
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    Call For Higher Kedah Salaries
    162 4 From Our Own Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Monday. OIGHER salaries for Kedah Malay subordinate officers and religious teachers and the pay men < of special allowances to kampong ketuas wen urfced at yesterday's meeting of the State Counci i m Alor Star. Tuan Haji Ahmad Abdul!lah
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    FUTURE OF 20,000 'SPECIALS'
    179 4 FUTURE OF 20 ,000 'SPECIALS' MALAY NEWS i From Oar Mai t Corrrtpenient THE 20,000 Malay special I constables m the Federation should be absorbed into the regular police or military forces. Inche Abdul Rashid bin Mohd. Yusof suggested at tie last meeting of the fahang Council of State. It
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    Pasir Panjang
    27 4 The chairman of the Pasir Panjang Rural District Committee is Mr. H. J. C Kulasingha, and not Mr. Kulasingham as reported m yesterday's Straits Times.
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    Singapore Diary
    220 4 TO-DAY Mawvell Road Children's Feeding Centre, formal handing over of the building to Lady Gimson by MaJ. Gen. D. Dunlop Ang Siana Hill 9 30 a.m. St. Andrew 's Correspondence Club, exhibition for the -while Bt Andrew's Schoo:. Woodsville 2 pm' to 5 p.m. Singapore Harbour Boar>l Club
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    MALAY NATIONALIST PARTY AGAIN ACTIVE
    102 4 r rHE first meeting 'of any M. branch of the Malay Nationalist Party since the emergency wa« held at Johor* Bahru last week. Resolutions urged the authorities to hasten steps for the realisation of *plTgovernment for Malaya, and ursred the release of i irty members
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    Municipality Might Buy Out STC In 1955
    328 5 Municipality Might Buy Out STC In 1955 OINGAPORE Municipal Commission might buy out the Singapore Traction Company and run its transport services as a Municipal concern m 1955 when the company's franchise terminates. Preliminary discussions on this subject are believed to have been made by the Muni- j cipal Commissioners,
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    36 5 GENERAL DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR, Allied Commander m Japan, gives A warm greeting to President Syngman Rhee of Korea on the latter's arrival by air m Tokio. In the background is Mrs. Mac Arthur. A. P. picture.
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    MALAY-CHINESE HARMONY
    167 5 From Our Own Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Monday. MR. Ooi Geok Tong, vice-president of the Kedah Rubber Dealers' Association, yesterday spoke of the harmony which existed between Malays and I Chinese m Kedah. ne spoKe at a function m Alor Star m honour of Mr. Tan Enn Soo. the
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    ANTI-T.B. MOVE IS SUCCESS
    131 5 ANTI-T.B. MOVE IS SUCCESS From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN Mon. THE Medical and Health Officer. Negri Sembilan (Dr. A. Bearblock) said yesterday that he was satisfied that the four weeks' operation of the anti-TB units at Kuala Pilah and Seremban had fully justified their formation. Dr. Bearblock reported this at
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    MURDERER NOT KNOWN
    69 5 SEGAMAT. Mun.— Murder by some person or persona unknown was the verdict of the Segamat Coroner (Inch* 1 Bidin bin Login) at the Inquest on 38-year-old Chin Fui. It was stated that Chin went out tapping on Sept. 17. but was shot through thr stomach. His body
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    SINGAPORE DEATH RATE DROPS
    49 5 Singapore death rate was lower last week compared with the week previous. There were 156 deaths as against 183 during the previous week, while total births recorded were 746. The infantile death rate was 80.43 as compared with 93.90 during the middle of last month.
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      628 5 i A caroftd player takes extreme South should have made five diaprecautlona even when he knows monds, but that contract required that they will b e needless and thought. S^tSlPtlSth m"" 8 to We <* opened the Jack of hearts- £kXr vC %?ridw \3£ dummy p yed que€n and East
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    56 6 MMtTS. Wee Sin Choc, Wee Sin Ami Wt t. Sin Oon and families. ■Jneerely 'hank all relatives, iriend- and various associations Who so kindly sent wreaths, scrolls, trltgrams. letters of condolence, loan of cars, attended r.lght visits and funeral of the late Madam Boh Oim Neo (wife "f the
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Nov. 2, 1948. FIVE MONTHS' LESSONS
    1025 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Nov. 2, 1948. FIVE MONTHS' LESSONS The sixth month of terrorism in Malaya has begun. It was in early June that three European planters were murdered in one morning in the Sungei Siput district, and the country suddenly realized that the wave of violence which
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    Fifty Year Ago.
    150 6 From the Straits Times of Nov. 2, 1898 Mr. Woodward is so driven that he has had to arrange to sit In the Court of Requests from 9 to 1130 a.m., on Monday Wednesday, and Friday. On Tuesday and Saturday, he will take tht 2nd Court at
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    With The Ferret Force In Sungei Siput
    1570 6  - With The Ferret Force In Sungei Siput GEOFFREY GELDARD By CECURITY forces are having an allout campaign to the finish with the terrorists of Sungei Siput, 20 miles north of.Ipoh. Sungei Siput, surrounded by large squatter areas, has long been a centre of Communist activity, and its name has become
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    Federation Studies—11
    14 6 Federation Studies 11 —Photograph by C. A. Gibson -Hill. VEGETABLE FARMS AT CAMERON HIGHLANDS
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    Films In Malayan Kampongs
    296 6 Films In Malayan Kampongs MAN-IN-THE-STREET HAVE the honour LO 1 refer to the article in your paper of Oct. 30 in which it is stated that films shown by Mooi.e Public Address Units of the Department of Public Relations "bore the Kampong Malays". This op,nion is said to have bc\
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    THE S.F.S.U.
    105 6 AMY attention has been iT1 drawn by the Hon. Secretary of the Army Civil Service Union to an error appearing on page 97 Table XXII of the Report of the Singapore Labour Department for 1947 by which that Uni:>n was recorded as being affiliated to the S.F.T.U. Those
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    MOVE TO MAKE LAW UNIFORM
    176 7 MOVE TO MAKE LAW UNIFORM From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THREE Bills, extending 1 to the whole of Federation legislation which at present is m force m only parts of the Federation, will be placed before the Federal Legislative Council shortly. The three Bills are the Industrial Courts
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    26 7 WINNING VOICE: Miss Julie Castillo with the sUver cup which she won m an open singing competition at the City Ll<hts Dance Hail, rVnang. last Satarday.
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    HIGH SALARIED POSTS OFFERED
    367 7 Eight Wanted For Water Plan A TTRACTIVE salaries, including one of $3,000 up to $3,500 a month, are being offered by the Singapore Municipality Water Department m an advertisement m England for eight engineers for the $27,000,000 waterworks project on the Johore River. They will form
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    42 7 BLKIT MERTAJAM High School Old Boys, resident In Singapore, photographed at a farewell dinner party riven m honour of Mr. Omar bin A. Jauharl (seated sixth from left) who has rone to Melbourne to study commerce at the 'University.— Straits Times picture.
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    GO SOUTH, PETROL BONUS GOES WEST From Our Staff Correspondent
    61 7 GO SOUTH, PETROL BONUS GOES WEST From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LIMPUR, Mon. FEDERATION motorists visiting Singapore will lose the 35- per cent increase on their petrol allocation unless they fill their tanks at Johore Bahru. Any loss on coupons surrendered m Singapore can not be made up either before
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    $5,000 Bail In Colony Lottery Case
    112 7 $5,000 Bail In Colony Lottery Case LEE Hian Hoon and an elderly woman, Yeo Ah Moy, were yesterday granted ball of $5 000 each wi.h two sureties m the Singapore Third Police Court on three charges connected with a chap Ji kl lottery. The first charge was that they assisted
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    COLONY STRIKE CONTINUES
    47 7 No settlement has yet been reached m the strike which began last Thursday of most of the 178 Chinese day labourers at Hume Industries <F&r Bast) Works In ButciTlmah Road. The strike is a Singapore Chinese Engineering Association protest against dismissal of 75 woTkers.
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    Colony Electricity Consumption Up
    157 7 (CONSUMPTION of electricity m Singapore last year rose by over 30 million units, reports the Municipal Electrical Engineer (Mr. C. C. Payne) m his annual review. r~-* The total number of units sold In 1947 was 85.788,894 compared with 52,983,742 for the first nine months of
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    AMMUNITION AT AIRPORT
    83 7 Bail of $1,500 was allowed by the Singapore acting Third Police Court Magistrate (Mr. R.W.P. Rule) yesterday to Tec Oek Chwee, on two charge* !n connection with ammunition. Teo is alleged to have been m unlawful possession of 1,936 rounds of 22 ammunition a*. Kallang airport on
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    COPRAFOR MALAYA
    148 7 ODREIGN import of copra Jn r September totalled 6.000 tons into Singapore and 700 tons Into the Federation. Most of It came from Sumatra. Copra exported In me same period totalled 8,465 tons, practically all from Singapore. Poland (2.000 tons), the Netherlands (1,410 tons) Italy (U9« tons), Iraq
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    HAROLD WON'T PAY
    211 7 UAROLD Hetterman, Hollyn wood film correspondent of the Nor;h American Newspaper Alliance, has had his income tax form sent to the Straits Times. The Straits Times group contribute to fea.ures from the North American Newspaper Alliance and so do other papers ail over the world. It is
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    "Would Restrict Interests"
    192 7 THE Malayan Indian Congress will make representations to the Governments m Malaya against the recommendations of the select committee reports regarding the Debtor and Creditor (Occupa'lou Period) BUL 1948. This w.s stated y*stf>r*»y by the president of the Congress (Mr. Budh Singh). i Mr. Budh Singh said
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    'Sympathy With Malays' Archbishop Yu Pin
    238 7 'Sympathy With Malays Archbishop Yu Pin From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. REPRESENTATIVES of Koala Lumpur's 4,860 1V Chinese Catholics, together with several hundred Chinese businessmen, guild leaders, school teachers and schoolchildren, gave Monsignor Paul Yu Pin (Archbishop of Nanking) an enthusiastic welcome when he arrived this morning for
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    SEA GYPSIES TO GET SCHOOL
    69 7 Sea gypsies li vtng near the estuaries of Benut, Benggarang and other rivers m Batu Pahat district In Johore were recently visited for a second time by FJ.M.N.O. leaders and officials of the Reliflous Department lc Batu Pahat The department has donated $150 towards building
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    Found Revolver
    18 7 The Police picked up an unloaded revolver In a backlane off Johore Road, on Sunday night.
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    41 7 rnN. KSG SCHEME: Formerly accommodatinc ser«ad c'ass patients of the Penan* General Hospital, tab blade is now bein* renovated and will become the new training school far hospital assistants. It will be opened In Jannary next year.— Straits Tim es picture.
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    Feeding Troops Is Priority Job
    257 7 HEEDING of troops taking part m the Malayan L campaign against terrorists has become a matter of first importance, states an Army announcement. This Is so because the majority of troops have become "ferrets" The statement says that experiments were carried out by the Army
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    Merchants' $60,000 In Fines
    192 7 Merchants $60,000 In Fines VjORE than $60,000 m fines has been paid by Singapore merchants between July and September for offences which were compounded by the Registrar of Imports and Exports. The Registrar compounds .an average of five offences each day. According to Mr. A. D. Stutchbury vhe acting Ke.gistrar
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    IN PORT ON FIRST TRIP
    76 7 The Rotterdam Lloyd pas-senger-freighter Slamat arrived m Singapore on her maiden voyage yesterday. The Slamat, of 12.000 tons, replaces a ship of the same i name which was sunk off the coast of Greece during the war whilst evacuating British troops. Capt. J. D. Jibben.
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    Cash, Opium Taken
    35 7 Two unarmed Chinese broke Into a house m A moy Stm-t at 6.30 yesterday mom rlj and robbed the occupant* of £45 and two taels of opium. Police have arrested a Chinese.
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    PAGEANTRY IN THE AUTUMN SUNSHINE
    28 8 OPENING OF PARLIAMENT: The black and gold Irish State Coach bearing the King and Queen, arrives at the Houses of Parliament. A.P. picture.
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    Post- War Britain In Perspective
    217 8 LONDON, October 20. f AST week, I promised to try to draw you some pictures of the post-war scene m Britain as it appears from a little distance: as it looks, so to speak, through the wrong end of the telescope. When one spends, as
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    HEALTH SCHEME
    259 8 AND so on— our National Health scheme, the subject of such ferocious political controversy here at home. Is far ahead In every way of anything In the neighbouring countries across the English Channel. Our other social services are superior, too, and. In one way or another, one constantly
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    MODERATION
    139 8 WHAT matters is that, despite the bitterness of party politics, caused so largely by the fiercely publicised attacks on non-So-cialists by Mr. Aneurln Bevan and Mr. Shinwell. the British people have now no wdde differences of mass opinion among themselves on ques- tions of social Justice and progress: and
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    CRIME WAVE
    218 8 IT would be absurd t suggest, for Instance, that there ha* not been a considerable change for the worse m the Incidence of crime. It was said at a conference of Anglican, Roman Catholic and Free Church leaders m Reading this week that "very many young people m
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    INCOMES
    154 8 A NOTHER suggestion J\ I have lately heard social experts make is that middle-class people are those within the range of the £800 to £2.000 a year income groups. Probably everybody has their own definition, and those definitions which nonmembers of this middle-class (which was popularly said m my
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    RHEUMATISM
    72 8 A NOTHER remarkable A gift for research just announced, here U> that of Capt. Oliver Bird (of the Bird's Custard family) for research into rheumatic complaints. In this damp and often sunless island of ours away up here In the northern fogs one out of every ten visitors to
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    LONDON LETTER
    289 8 prised if tt is there when you return. Food parcels sent irom abroad disappear In considerable numbers during their transit towards the addresses from our ports. The incidence of petty theft remains, indeed, lamentably wide and it<s perpetrators I r>"in<ip people of all Cl--S- MIDDLE CLASS HAVE you
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      263 8 Your Protection against Infection You cannot keep healthy without iUunias. Lack of sufficient vitamin A, for fauUUKe, lowers bodily resistance, and makes mm more liable to coughs, colds and otlirr illnesses. One of the richest known source* of Vitamin A is Crookes Halibut Oil. Vitamin A is a protective vitamin
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      222 8 RADIO MALAYA Yorke and hU Concert Orchestra; Cavalcade; 3.15 Close; 6.00 Thirty 10.30 Stories of the Opera; 11.00 to One; 8.45 March of the Movies; SINGAPORE News. Close. 7.15 Swing Session; 9.00 Critique; BBC OVERSEAS 10.15 Jazz Octet; 10.20 Noel i«2u tm «»6 mc/«.) ii 2i Coward Programme; 11.50 Close.
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    Watch Baby Grow
    907 9  -  NURSE BRIDGET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA By J Nurse Brigdet is qualified m the care of babies and young children. If you have any problems mad aeei help write to: t Norse Bridget c o Straits Times, Cecil Street. Singapore. f Pleas c give a pseudonym under which
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    NO NEW LOOK IN FILMS
    267 9 friifc "new look" fashions, suitable for the rest of the world, never got anywhere m Hollywood. Movie designers didn't even bothfi to try the extrenie fashiun changes that) sent women to filling up their closets last year Tight waists and billowing skirts may look line
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    Dressmaking Is So Easy!
    793 9 I HAVE a little friend who "runs up" all her own little frocks. She picks up snippets of material from bargain counters and with terrifying nonchalance and skill transforms them Into creations. New Look, trappings and all. She told me It was easy. like slapping up
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    From an estate bungalow
    417 9 U/ X had heard he was elderly and a Haji but the old man who walked briskly up to us was far older than we had expected; possibly eighty years of age, we surmised. He was a wonderful looking old man whose face was deeply lined
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      Views On Tin Pact Proposal
      295 10 Views On Tin Pact Proposal From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. DOTH Official and UnD official spokesmen m Kuala Lumpur today considered that the full implications of the international tin agreement mooted last week m the International Tin Study Group meeting at The Hague would have to be debated
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      HOW CHINA SOLVES HER INTERNAL DEBT
      405 10 f HINA'S methods of solving her internal debt problem will interest particularly holders of Chinese external bonds. So far nothing has been announced concerning external loans. Soon after the Introduction of the new currency, says The Financial Times, the Chinese Government announced its intention
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      PATERSON SIMONS TO EXTEND
      93 10 From Our Own or respondent LONDON, Mon. APPLICATION U to be made for a London Stock Exchange quotation for the shares of Paterson Simons and Company, merchants and shippers. With this id view, authority has been given to sub-division of each of the company's £1 shares
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      New Rule On Prices
      157 10 NANKING, Mon. REVERSING its economic policy adopted two months ago, the Chinese Cabinet yesterday abolished price ceilings of Aug. 19. It decreed that prices of essential commodities. including daily necessities fend industrial raw materials, should be adjusted according to actual costs under conditions prevailing at present.
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        TIN EXPORTS FROM BOLIVIA
        58 10 EXPORTS ol Bolivian tin ore and concentrates m Augusj 1 were the equivalent of 2.542 met ric lons of fine tin compared will 3.344 tons m the preceding month making for the eight month: ***** tons. This was an ncrea&e of 3,031 tons over the 20.531
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        TEXAS SMELTER
        30 10 JN September, the Texas Citi Smeller produced 2.852 tons o tin against 3.509 tons m Augus and 2.356 tons a year ago. Output for January-S"ptomb<> was L»« > 1
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        DUTCH OFFERING
        25 10 REPORTS from the Continen .state that Dutch tin has re cently been offering *t arounc £570 to £573 a ton fob. Rot •crdam.
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        B.I. AFRICAN SERVICE
        133 10 THE 10.000-ton, 16-icnot liner Karanja has recently completed her trials. Sh» will sail east to Join her sister Kampala on the 8.1. service between India, Pakistan and East and South Africa. The Kampala has now been on that service for over a year. j Each of these
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        New P.& O. Vessels
        148 10 New P.& O. Vessels I "fHE Surat. which has recently I completed her trials, Is the 1 second of four 9000-ton cargo liners to be completed for the P. <b O. service between Europe and the- Far East. Two of them, the Soudan and Somali, are motorsh ps. The I
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        P.& O. STAFF
        84 10 CHANGES m P. O. «ea P«- sonnel are announced as follows: Or; Oct. 11, Captain J. O. Divers took command of the Khyber vice Captain J. M. Peter, who went on leave. Captain W. R. Stoclcdale, Staff Commander of the Strathnaver. 1 went on leave on 13.
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        SEYCHELLES COPRA SALE
        106 10 'THE contract by which the Britsh Ministry of Food purchases the whole of the Seychelles' copra exports at £40 10s. per ton f.o.b. expires this year. The Ministry has made alternative offers from Jan. 1, 1949. of (1» a three-year contract under which payment durng the first
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    Dividends and Sweeps
    418 11 RACE ONE 1. BATTI II SH, S7. Cash Sweep: No. 3 ($585); No. I. PETER CON $26. 855 (*292) No. 618 ($144). StartS. GREETINGS $7. tern ($lB each), No*. 402, 315, 656, Won by 4, 1, >*. Time 1 mm. 206, 81*. 522, 445, 710. 18 4/5.
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    FLANNERY SETS NEW RECORD
    1777 11 More Upsets At K.L. Races From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. I AN DING a double with Lady Ruth and Assail, Jockey Frank Flannery yesterday set up a new Malayan turf record of 53 winning mounts for the season, thus beating "Bluey" Sleigh's 23-year-old record of
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    State Rugby Trial In K.L. Today
    163 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. SELANGOK'S first State Rugby trial will be held on the Padang on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Two teams— the Probables and Possibles will be opposed but m addition the State selectors have invited ten other reserve players.
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    3 Goals In Ten Minutes
    86 11 KHALSA Association scored three goals within 10 minutes against the Singapore Recreation Club when they met at hockey on the padang yesterday. The game was abandoned owing to the rain. Displaying marked superiority, the Khalsa team would have at least scored four more goals with
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    S'gor Polo Club To Run Four Teams
    232 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. DOLO was formally in- augurated m Selangor yesterday at the race course with the first match since the liberatton, the teams being the Selangor Polo Club and the R.A. gunners. Among the large number of 1
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    MCC WinBy 9 Wickets
    87 11 CAPETOWN, Monday. 'THE M.C.C. beat Western Province by nine wickets In a thrilling finish today, towards which both captains contributed by sporting declarations. The M.C.C. declared their first innings at 357 for five, m reply to the W.P. total for 386 for four dccl. W.P. declared
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    English College Beat Medicos
    61 11 JOHORE English College beat the Medical College Union at rugger In a fast game played at Johore Bahru last Saturday. The winners piled up a good points win, registering 22 points (two goals and four tries) to three (a try). Scorers for the English College were
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    S.C.F.A. SOCCER
    34 11 'THE Singapore Chinese F.A. A will play soccer against Johore Bahru district on Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Istana Padang, J.B. Proceeds of the game will go towards the Remembrance Day Fund.
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    LATE PENALTY DECIDES GOLD CUP TIE
    461 12 LATE PENALTY DECIDES GOLD CUP TIE S'pore Malays Beat Perak A PENALTY goal the only goal of the match A by Harith four minutes from time gave Singapore Malays victory over Perak Malays m the semi-flnal of the Sultans' Gold Cup soccer competition at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. In lading
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    Penang Defeat Negri 1—0
    266 12 From Our Staff Correspondent XI T ALA I-I'MPUR, Monday. A SOLITARY goal st'or^H ten minutes after resumption Rave Penaiiß victory over Nepri Sembilan m j a very inU-restinff game of hockey played on the Taylor Road ground this evening. Negrl fielded no less thanjthree reserves, but
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    33 To Run In Melbourne Cup Today
    264 12 MELBOURNE. Mon. FEDERAL Parliament r will take a day off! and international events will be overshadowed throughout Australia tomorrow when the Commonwealth's most lamous turf event, the Melbourne Cup, will be run over two miles at Flemington race course. Royal Gem and Count
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    WINNER WILL MEET BRUCE
    67 12 LONDON, Mon. THE winner of th« flght b«- twten Freddie Mills and South African Johnny Ralph! In Johannesburg on Nov. 6, will be recognised as the logl- cal contender for Bruce Woodcock's Empire heavy- weight title, the British Boxing Board of Control announced. Mills' world light
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    St. Andrew's Beat; Raffles 3-0
    332 12 OATTLING m mud and with driving rain m the! 13 faces for the major part of the game, St. Andrew's School beat Raffles Institution by three points (a try) In an inter-school rugby fixture played on the R.I. ground yesterday. o Both schools nelded junior
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    Vanderholt Takes 6-49
    67 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. D. M. Vanderholt, a former Belangor State 'jricketer. was m great form when he captured six wickets for 49 runs, playing for the Kual.i Lumpur V.M.C.A. m the annual [•ticket competition for the Foenander Snield against the [poh V.M.C A
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    Races & Other Sport in P. 11
    117 12 Races Other Sport in P. 11 Ivavy shower of rain prevented further play. The match will be continued tomorrow IPOH V.M C A. Ang Earn Hock c Samuel b Vanderholt 39. S. V. Supp ah b Munusamy 10. S. Nalliah C Watts b Vanderholt 21; V. T. Durai st Mack
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    FRIENDLY SOCCER
    24 12 H.M.S. Birmingham beat the Dockyard Malays two- -r.il ;n a friendly soccer match at Seletar on Saturday. Scorers were: Thomson and Webstar.
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    Foley Saves Casuals
    153 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday A LAST-MINUTE goal scored by Foley enabled ihe Penang Casuals to share I honours with the Selangor Eu- raslan Association XI when they m«t In a friendly game (of hockey at the Victoria fnjstitution ground today. The game ended m a two1 all draw.
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    Sports Diary
    41 12 TODAY HOCKEY: S.R.C. v. Fail Telegraph Hong I.im (irecn; 8.0.D.C.A. t. Y.MC'.A.— St. George's Rd; Ceylon Sports Club v. S.H.B. Police Thomson Rd; Girls' Sports Club v. Naval Base Ladies HO— SRC. (all game* will start at 5.15 p.m.)
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    Penang Women Held to Draw
    197 12 from Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Monday. THE all conquering fVnang women's hockey team met their match when they 'played the Selangor Indian Assn women's team at Taylor Road this moming. They were held to a fjur-all draw after one of thj' keenest and best
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    Vanquished And Winner
    51 12 Mrs. Chionh Hiok Chor, (left) Singapore woman champion, who met Mrs. Cecelia Samuel (right) m the women's singles m the Marigold- Merry dale inter-party match at the Clerical Union yesterday. Mrs. Samuel beat Mrs. Chionh 11—3 and 11— 7.— Straits Times picture. LIM KEE FONG m action
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    Saddler Is Year's 4th New Champion
    268 12 LONDON, Monday. VTEW faces m the ranks of world boxing: champions add interest to the game and the fans will have noticed that Sandy Saddler's win m the featherweight division against Willie Pep, the holder, at Madison Square Garden a few nights ago, provided
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    Merrydale B.P. Win Again
    449 12  -  KEN JAM. EH By FOR the second tim© over the week-end, the Merrydale Badminton Party of Kuala Lumpur beat a Singapore team this time more convincingly— when they overcame the Marigold Badminton Party by six games to three at the Clerical Union yester- day. The Marigolds
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    Selangor Win By Only Goal
    300 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPI R, Monday. yiJIARATNAM, leading the attack, scored the winning goal for the Selangor hockey team against Johore this evening, the match producing a high standard despite slippery, difficult conditions. Johore gave Selangor one of their toughest fights of the
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    Rejects Offer
    116 12 SYDNEY, JIM Armstrong. Australian Olympic ae»Ty weight wrestler, has rejected a lucrative offrr to I come a profp.ssiw.il. Armstrong said thn off' i i from A. Morr-ll Yorkshire pi j moter. It was fdr a Bye I contract at a .sum exceeding l I a year. Armstrong, a
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    Refresher Course For Referees
    55 12 REFRESHER course for Cl rpferros has b<vn or 1 Iby the Singapore Chines P. A. |to take place on rvery Friday, starting 'h's week at !he residence of Mr. Llm Your Ltang. No. 52. Kampung Java Road v 5.15 p.m. sharp. Rovd. JohtisUm. Chairman Referees' Board.
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